Grape Preservation
From The new practical housekeeping, 1890
Serves 6
Check the grapes several times during winter and repack if any mold or decay is found.
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 559. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
grapes are the most ripe. All the berries in a bunch never ripen equally ; it is therefore proper to cut a- way the unripe or decayed berries before presenting the bunches at table. Autumn and winter pears are gathered, when dry, as they successively ripHen. Immature fruit never keeps so well as that which nearly approaches maturity. Winter apples should be left on jbhe trees till there be danger of frost; they are then gatheied on a dry day. Grape$. — ^They most not be too ripe. Take off any imperfect grapes from the bunches. On the bottom of a keg pat a layer of bran that has been well dried
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